What can two actions with different repercussions have in common? Putin's coup against Ukraine causes thousands of deaths, the exodus of millions and the destruction of a country. Will Smith's blow against Chris Rock, will only remain in an anecdote of the ascars. However, the message of both actions is powerful for humanity, in front of our televisions we see every day how a country is destroyed by a nuclear power without the so-called democratic countries being able to stop the aggressor, except to deliver weapons and humanitarian aid, each building destroyed by a Russian missile, launched tens or hundreds of kilometers from its target, is a warning to the world: "the power of arms is the real power", not dialogue, not diplomacy, much less democracy.
Those of us who saw, live last night from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, Will Smith hit comedian Chris Rock for daring to joke about his wife also received a strong message. The Rock thing was a joke with the same intention as always, when a comedian is invited to ceremonies like the Oscar, to make the guests laugh. This time facing Smith's wife, who suffers from alopecia, her premature hair loss, she was completely shaved, the comedian said, verbatim: "I'm excited to see Pinkett Smith in G.I. Jane”, a Ridley Scott movie where Demi Moore plays a Marine, shaving her hair off when joining her division. I don't attack Smith's wife, I don't denigrate her, I made her participate in the ceremony, I joke with her. Perhaps Smith wanted everyone's condescension for the bad time her wife is going through, and he didn't find her, they treated her like any of her in that room full of movie stars.
Smith's message when hitting Rock, he himself was in charge of letting us know when he received his Oscar for best leading actor for "King Richard": "Love will make you do crazy things", like patriotism, or god, always a violent act it has an abstract, non-factual explanation. Smith also put God and the devil in his speech, as if apologizing, it was not him who hit Rock, but the devil who brought out the worst in him at that moment.
It is in that dichotomy that has accompanied the world in the last two millennia, God and the devil, believers against infidels, the diagnosis of our fratricidal history. Putin enters Ukraine, to denazify Ukraine, they, the Russians, are the good guys, Ukraine a republic ruled by libertines, drug addicts, homosexuals and murderers, encouraged by Western democracies who want to debase the Russian people with their decadent culture. And god, the god that accommodates the russians enters into this historical axiom, while the west loses faith in god more and more, Russia clings to the orthodox church, more and more churches rise on russian soil, more and more power they get the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church, with the unconditional support of Putin and the Russian oligarchs. It's almost like going back to the days before the Russian revolution of 1917, when the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was the backbone of tsardom, blessing its ironclad autocracy.
We are facing a world, in the middle of the 21st century, that returns to the forms of a century ago, the power of the fists or weapons is the one who settles any controversy, protected by a god that makes you strong and powerful to fight any war against the unfaithful
God, love, country, traditions, history, are used by a powerful man from Hollywood, as by a tyrant with nuclear weapons to impose his truth, his reason. We have lived that for millennia, the law of the strongest, and it cost millions of human lives, destruction, poverty, hunger, and it seems that the human being returns along that path. We saw it last night, the essence of being human is to hit, not laugh, not talk.
